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Gray — Irish Cromlechs. 
On the slopes of the higher hills, to the south of the public 
road above the bay, there are no less than three very fair 
cromlechs, as follows : — 
1 . MOUNT DRUID CROMLECH. 
Sketch No. 4. 
This monument occupies a very commanding site on the 
hill-side above the rectory, from which the headlands of the 
Causeway cliffs can be seen. It is known as the ‘‘Druids’ 
Altar,” and consists of a large block about 6 ^ ft. long and 5 jft. 
wide, supported on three of the four smaller stones forming the 
chamber.* 
This monument comes within Sir John Lubbock’s category 
of cromlechs, because it is enclosed by two circles of stones, one 
inside the other. The diameter of the outer circle is about 35 
feet, and the stones composing it are about two feet high. 
Where stone circles occur in connexion with tumuli, they are 
on the outside. So small a circle as we have here is an indica- 
tion that, at all events, this cromlech is not a mere chamber of 
an original tumulus, because a tumulus inside the circles could 
not very well cover the cromlech. The enclosing stone circle 
is an unusual feature in connexion with the cromlechs of the 
North-east of Ireland, and it is to be hoped that where they 
occur they may be preserved from further destruction. Sketch 
No. 4 , and all the sketches illustrating this paper, have been 
taken on the spot by the author, who recommends that they 
should be compared with the respective monuments themselves, 
or with photographs of the monuments, rather than with such 
illustrations as are given in the statistical surveys for the Dublin 
Society, or in the “ Dublin Penny Journal.” 
2. GLEGNAGH CROMLECH, BALLINTOY. 
Sketch No. 5. 
This small but very perfect cromlech is in the townland of 
Glegnagh, near a quarry on the hill-side, south of the public 
* Statistical Survey, County of Antrim, 1812 — Part II., page 582. “Dublin Penny 
Journal.” Vol. III., page 351. 
